North Dakota Department of Health and Human Services

**About Us** HHS Vision: North Dakota is the healthiest state in the nation. HHS Mission Statement: HHS fosters positive, comprehensive outcomes by promoting economic, behavioral, and physical health, ensuring a holistic approach to individual and community well-being. Our mission underscores the incredible work that is already underway across HHS today. It reflects our commitment to keep the well-being of individuals and communities at the forefront of our efforts. **HHS Strategic Priorities** Our strategic priorities provide the specifics for how we will achieve our vision and how we will measure our success: - Support the advancement of strong, stable, healthy families and communities. - Advance the foundations of well-being through access to high-quality services and supports closer to home. - Optimize disaster and epidemic response and recovery. - Advance excellence in agency infrastructure and operations. - Deliver best-in-class customer-centered experiences. - Foster a culture of excellence where every team member has a voice, adds value, and is empowered to make a difference. **HHS Guiding Principles** Our guiding principles are more than just words. They inspire our decisions, fuel our passion for service and shape our culture as an agency: - Continuous improvement and innovation: We embrace continuous improvement and innovation as ways to streamline the delivery of services, drive efficiencies and promote best-in-class customer-centered experiences. - Responsible stewardship: Our organizational effectiveness and impact is enhanced by our strategic and efficient management of agency funding, assets and resources. - Transparent and open communication: We prioritize transparent and open communication to facilitate trust, organizational and stakeholder awareness, collaboration and unity. - Engaged collaboration: We bring a spirit of teamwork and accountability to every interaction, using our combined strengths to drive solutions and success. - Data-centered decisions: Our decisions are grounded in data; we use facts and metrics to inform and guide our actions and evaluate outcomes.